Acorn
Acorn, 15 min 4 seconds, colour, sound, 4k video, 2024
Notes
Acorn was filmed spontaneously, in response to an intense moment of play between my brother and his son. Along with round fifteen all sound, made later that year, it laid the foundation for a new direction in my practice, focusing on performativity between staged and documentary video, and the possibilities of editing and narrative within them. On a material level, Acorn can be seen as a relationship study of a child and their parent, enacting the dynamic of the reality principle—a negotiation between primal instinct and external reality. Through the production of this film, I became increasingly interested in how perception of reality changes with age, and how families and relationships function as little scenes where relational dynamics, unfold and can be observed.